- Date
2013
- Auteurs
Tanya Basok, Danièle Bélanger et Eloy Rivas
- Résumé
Deportability, or a threat of deportation, can be viewed as a technique of discipline employed to make migrant workers efficient and compliant. Under the threat of deportation, migrants accept dangerous, dirty, degrading and difficult jobs for low pay. Deportability also prevents them from challenging their working and living conditions either individually or collectively. Most of the literature on deportability applies to unauthorised migrants. Yet, as illustrated in this article, migrants employed legally on temporary contracts are also disciplined through a threat of deportation. While for unauthorised migrants, it is the receiving state that is the most important actor (re)creating the regime of deportability, for legally employed migrants, other actors––such as employers, the sending states, recruiters and international organisations––assume a more important role in employing the threat of deportation as a disciplinary technique. In this article, we explore how power is reproduced in this disciplinary regime of deportability. We examine migrants' responses to the techniques of discipline that subjugate them. We argue that when migrants adopt calculative and reflexive practices to avoid deportation and secure their own employment, they often end up reproducing the disciplinary power of the deportation regime.
- Journal title
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Fichiers joints
- Liens
- Secteurs économiques
Agriculture and horticulture workers et General farm workers
- Groupes cibles
Chercheurs
- Pertinence géographique
Ontario
- Sphères d’activité
Droit, Science politique et Socioligie
- Langues
Anglais